Re: [libgit2] pygit2/libgit2 : resolve_reference('config')
- From:
- J. David Ibanez
- Date:
- 2012-03-29 @ 20:41
The error message should be the same in both cases. Could you help
to track down where is the problem? or at least open an issue in the
pygit2 tracker?
Otherwise I think the API is fine.
On Tue, 27 Mar 2012 13:34:26 -0300
Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwenn@gmail.com> wrote:
> What is the correct way (using libgit2/pygit2) to resolve branches
> similar to how git does this?
>
> >>> import pygit2 as p
> >>> r =p.Repository('..')
> >>> r.lookup_reference('does-not-exist')
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
> KeyError: 'does-not-exist'
>
> >>> r.lookup_reference('config')
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
> pygit2.GitError: config: Failed to lookup reference
> - Failed to lookup reference
> - Failed to lookup reference from packfile
>
>
> my current code tries '' , 'refs/heads/' , 'refs/tags/',
> 'refs/remotes/' in this order as prefixes. This has the side effect
> of getting very confused when trying to lookup a branch with the same
> name (such .git/config).
>
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Re: pygit2/libgit2 : resolve_reference('config')
- From:
- Han-Wen Nienhuys
- Date:
- 2012-03-27 @ 16:35
This looks like a bug: shouldn't libgit check that the file starts
with 'ref: ' ?
On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 1:34 PM, Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwenn@gmail.com> wrote:
> What is the correct way (using libgit2/pygit2) to resolve branches
> similar to how git does this?
>
>>>> import pygit2 as p
>>>> r =p.Repository('..')
>>>> r.lookup_reference('does-not-exist')
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
> KeyError: 'does-not-exist'
>
>>>> r.lookup_reference('config')
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
> pygit2.GitError: config: Failed to lookup reference
> - Failed to lookup reference
> - Failed to lookup reference from packfile
>
>
> my current code tries '' , 'refs/heads/' , 'refs/tags/',
> 'refs/remotes/' in this order as prefixes. This has the side effect
> of getting very confused when trying to lookup a branch with the same
> name (such .git/config).
>
> --
> Han-Wen Nienhuys - hanwen@xs4all.nl - http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen
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